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I want to see a high-res screen shot showing the faces of the people who were leaving in the top of the 7th. I remember they showed this after Papelbon gave up the double. That said, I am sympathetic with people who have kids/families etc. and these games start very late in the east and last so long. It would be great to have some more day games for the playoffs. Wasn't Saturday's game supposed to be 4:30 eastern? Was it moved later because the NLCS is over?

Someone in the other thread, who was at the game, said no one (or almost no one) was leaving. They were just going to the concessions stands or the bathroom. He said the place was as packed as ever at the end.

Have a gander at raysbb.com for some delicious schadenfreude served over a bed of hate.

Score 7-1Ooooooh! A run!!!!WOW LISTEN TO THAT CROWD RRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOAAAARRRRRRR BOSTON IS BACK IN THIS SH*T THEY'VE GOT US ON THE RUN NOW

Score 7-4O Chittoo little too late you overrated goonI don't think fatass stood in the box long enough.i run down the street for some bubbly and balfours suckin more dick than pam anderson....and here we go with the comeback talk... god how #### sickeningly stupid.

Score 7-7#### you maddon, #### you wheeler. what a bunch of ####. pissing this game away.Maddon is making all the wrong decisions right now. Nice throw Gabe. Game over, season over.

Score 7-8FCUK...that was all on Maddon...no excuses about itAnyone who thinks the Rays still win this series has never watched sports before.Damn.......better get one in Tampa or this would be the biggest choke job of all time....ever...what a bunch of bush league fcukwads out there partying on the diamond like they just won the series. YOU JUST BROUGHT IT BACK TO OUR HOUSE YOU WORMS. GET YOUR TEE TIMES READY

They just showed it. I'm skeptical because everyone is wearing their coats as they are walking along the aisle. Probably folks in the bad seats filled in the vacated seats. But I agree that just because Caray says people were leaving, it doesn't mean they were ACTUALLY leaving.

You gotta love the 2-out Red Sox rallies during this post-season. Kotsay's 2-out double in the 8th was so unbelievably clutch.I was screaming at Coco to take ball four (did he foul off 3? 4? high pitches?) but if he walks, they might not have tied it. Epic at bat.

Is there any reason to think Coco shouldn't have gone to 2nd? With ANY reasonable throw, he advances easily. It was only that the throw is so bad that they can get him at 2nd. Remember it was a liner to short RF.

They just showed it. I'm skeptical because everyone is wearing their coats as they are walking along the aisle. Probably folks in the bad seats filled in the vacated seats. But I agree that just because Caray says people were leaving, it doesn't mean they were ACTUALLY leaving.

Hey, I don't know either way. I don't really think Sox fans are such a special breed that no one would leave before the game was over. There are plenty of fairweather fans in all parks, even Fenway.

But you know, the TBS camera can catch 10 people leaving and make it sound like Fenway is emptying out. Check out James' comment in the previous thread.

Any reasonable person could be forgiven for giving up nearly all hope when Papelbon gave up the double. But that is the beauty of baseball. In football (and basketball, soccer, etc.), insurmountable leads ARE insurmountable because of the clock. Earl Weaver has a great quote about this...anyone remember it? Something about what makes baseball great, you have to let the other team get up and take a crack at it.

re: l-girl's comment about fair weather fans. I grew up in the SF Bay Area and followed both the Giants and A's. In general people stayed. Then I went to college in L.A. This was late '80's/hershisher/gibson etc. L.A. fans routinely left early, it was not a cliche...6th inning the place would empty.

But this year I was impressed with how insane the L.A. fans were in the post-season, at least in the NLDS.

"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all."

That was probably the second time I've read an article by Simmons, so that would explain why I thought it was really good. It was fun to read. 20 or so more columns later and it'd probably get old.

But I can relate to a lot of what he was talking about. I was doing a little bit of a pre-mortem post-mortem discussion with my father during the game about the Red Sox and coping with the end of the season and talking about the World Series... He was convinced they were going to lose. He didn't really care anymore. So he went to bed.